I just read two articles on gifted education: one about funding and one about the effects that No Child Left Behind has had on gifted education.
Do you think that Redfield Public has a neglected and needy gifted population? Is a gifted ed program needed to challenge those "bright" and bored students that we have? Or is there another way to address the needs of the gifted as well as those of all the other students?
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I think that there should be a gifted and advanced class for those students who are "bright and bored." I personally have often been pushed into classes with a mixed level of advancement and find it hard to focus when the person next to me has no clue what is going on because they are not of the same level as me or others in the class. If we had more advanced placement classes we could ensure that each individual student gets the appropriate amount of attention and is taught based upon their abilities and not the sate provided curriculum. With a more personalized program we could help ensure the success of each student to the highest of our abilities.
I believe that we need more honors and advanced placement classes for those who are bored out of their minds because of what is required for them to take is boring them to death, while the person behind them is struggling to pass with a D. My brother was one of those students, he is extremely intelligent, he just didn't want to do the homework, and passed out of many of the general classes he had to take in college. If we had more than just two choices when it came to classes, like english our junior and senior years, aka movie hour (ms. lillebo), or breakdown hour(your class or mrs. frost) I think that the people who are actually really smart, but just don't care would do a lot better in school.
Getting some more classes doesnt seem like a good thing to do by me. I think that our school is very smart, but we obviously dont have the funding to pay for more teachers. Some of our teachers are already teaching many classes and have a tough time the way it is. Yes, i think more advanced classes would help some students, but some kids would also get in over their heads.
The 'Bright and Gifted' students' classes would only contain a couple students to be honest. You can only have so many students in AP LPS, or AP Grammar and Comp. It would be more difficult to fit in the classes for these students, and would make the teachers go crazy. If there is something the teachers would like to do for those 'Special' students, go for it. Give them more homework! Suits me; because in all honesty, that's all that would be happening. It also makes for more planning for the teachers. I'm not a teacher, but that doesn't sound fun, and we definitely don't have the money in our school to hire new teachers. Just leave our class periods how they are and I do believe we'll do just fine. We are all bright students in some way, it just takes a little bit longer for some of us to show it.
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